Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Kenneth Flamm recently posted two working papers to the Social Science Research Network that focus on digital inclusion in the United State. His first paper, "National, Regional, and ISP Variation in U.S. Broadband Quality Improvement: Has a Rising Time Floated All Boats," takes newly available data to measure trends in broadband high speed internet across the United States. His research shows that while generally broadband service quality has improved in the United States, the improvements have not been equally distributed around the country. The complete analysis is forthcoming this summer, and can be found here.

On Tuesday April 9th, Routledge published an edited collection on the global phase-out of highly enriched uranium, edited by Strauss Distinguished Scholar Alan Kuperman. The collection, titled Nuclear Terrorism and Global Security: The Challenge of Phasing out Highly Enriched Uranium, is a part of the Routledge Global Security Studies series. The book addresses the dangers resulting from the fact that highly enriched uranium (HEU) has become a globally trafficked commodity, making it possible for it be used by terrorists to create a nuclear weapon.

Dr. William Inboden analyzes the relationship between religious intolerance and persecution and national security threats. Using historical context and contemporary examples, Dr. Inboden explains that a country that engages in religious persecution is more likely to be a security threat and “there is not a single nation in the world that both respects religious freedom and poses a security threat to the United States.”

In this Foreign Policy Paper for the German Marshall Fund, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar William Inboden looks back at the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr, a prominent U.S. public intellectual in the mid-century. Niebuhr's philosophies on transatlantic relations are, according to Inboden, just as relevant today as they were when he first wrote them.

Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Joshua Busby is author of “Feeding Insecurity? Poverty, Weak States, and Climate Change” in the book Confronting Poverty: Weak States and U.S. National Security. In this chapter, Busby examines the societal and economic impacts of climate change.

 In his article “Conflict and Cooperation in Cold War” published in Journal of Contemporary History Mack Brown Distinguished Scholar Jeremi Suri reviews recent research on the Cold War.

 In Strauss Scholar Jeremi Suri’s article “American Grand Strategy from the Cold War’s End to 9/11,” Suri analyzes America’s “grand strategy,” defined as “the wisdom to make power serve useful purposes” in the period between the end of the Cold War and September 11, 2001.

In his article “The Rise and Fall of International Counterculture, 1960-975,” published in the American Historical Review in February 2009, Strauss Scholar Jeremi Suri examines how the international counterculture movement affected the Cold War.

In his article “Iraq and the Military Detention Debate: Firsthand Perspectives from the Other War, 2003-2010” published in the Virginia Journal of International Law, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and UT Law Professor Robert Chesney examines the law and policy of military detention.

In his essay “The Supreme Court, Material Support, and the Lasting Impact of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project for the Wake Forest Law Review, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and UT Law Professor Robert Chesney discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and its implications for federal criminal law in relation to terrorism.